A thermoporoelastic model for fluid transport in tumour tissues

Author:

Andreozzi Assunta1ORCID,Iasiello Marcello1,Netti Paolo Antonio2

Affiliation:

1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Abstract

In this paper, the effect of coupled thermal dilation and stress on interstitial fluid transport in tumour tissues is evaluated. The tumour is modelled as a spherical deformable poroelastic medium embedded with interstitial fluid, while the transvascular fluid flow is modelled as a uniform distribution of fluid sink and source points. A hyperbolic-decay radial function is used to model the heat source generation along with a rapid decay of tumour blood flow. Governing equations for displacement, fluid flow and temperature are first scaled and then solved with a finite-element scheme. Results are compared with analytical solutions from the literature, while results are presented for different scaling parameters to analyse the various physical phenomena. Results show that temperature affects pressure and velocity fields through the deformable medium. Finally, simulations are performed by assuming that the heat source is periodic, in order to assess the extent to which this condition affects the velocity field. It is reported that in some cases, especially for periodic heating, the combination of thermoelastic and poroelastic deformation led to no monotonic pressure distribution, which can be interesting for applications such as macromolecule drug delivery, in which the advective contribution is very important owing to the low diffusivity.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

Biomedical Engineering,Biochemistry,Biomaterials,Bioengineering,Biophysics,Biotechnology

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